1-2G. MALTHID.E— IIALIEUT.EA. 851 



474. IIAL,IEUTICHTII\S Toey. 

 (roey, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 89: type SuUeutieJithys reticulatus Poey.) 



Disk suborbicnlar, about as louji' as the rest of the body (including 

 caudal fin); forehead with a transverse bony ridg'e, the cavity beneath 

 it being without a tentacle; mouth rather small, inferior, the lower jaw 

 nearly semicircular; teeth fine, on jaws and i)alate. Dorsal and anal 

 fins with four rays each. {d/u£UTrj:, lislier; i/0''K, fish.) 



1311. 11. aculcatMS (Mitch.) Goodo. 



Color gray, reticulated with blackish; caudal with three blackish 

 bands. Disk longer than wide and somewhat narrowed anteriorly ; 

 ridges armed with simple spines; five bicuspid spines on each lateral 

 margin of the disk, and between them smaller, simple ones; five spines 

 forming a pentagon before interorbital area; one over each orbit, and 

 4 on a ridge behind each orbit. D. 4; A. 4. {Gill.) Cuba to Southern 

 Florida. 



(Lophius aciileatits Mitch. Amor. Monthly Ma<^. ii, 325, 1818: Hidienilehtlitis rcHcuIatiis 

 Poey MSS., Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, yi; Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 ii, 109, 1879.) 



475. HAL,IEUT.EA Cnvior & Valenciennes. 



(Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. xii, 455, 1837: type Lopliius stellatus Wahl.) 

 Head very large, broad, depressed, its outline nearly circular; cleft 

 of the mouth wide, horizontal; jaws with small cardiform teeth; no 

 teetli on vomer or palatines. Skin everywhere covered with small, stel- 

 late si)ines. Forehead with a transverse bony ridge, beneath which is 

 a tentacle, retractile into a cavity, the only tudiment of the spinous 

 dorsal fin; soft dorsal and anal very short, far back. Gills 2i, the 

 anterior gill-arch without laminte. Branchiostegals 5; vertebra? 17. 

 Warm seas. (a/;£'jr7j?, one who fishes.) 



1315. Iff. seDJticosa Goode. 



Eeddisli gray, whitish below. Disk orbicular, nearly as broad as 

 long, its outlines prolonged on each side in a strong spine, armed at tip 

 with a group of spinelets; skin above with numerous stout, conical stel- 

 lated spines, largest posteriorly ; a marginal series of close set siiines, 

 besides 5 to 7 on each carpal p6duncle; outside of the marginal spines 

 is a row of 5 depressed, knife-like s])ines, each with a crown of three 

 spinelets; these two rows of marginal spines coalescing on the front 

 edge of disk forming a bristling row, j^ointing in different direc- 

 tions; small stellate prickles in the interspaces of the larger spines 



